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Substantive knowledge
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Understand and apply the major theories of European integration.
- Understand the contemporary politics of European integration.
- Display knowledge of the objectives and functioning of key EU institutions and policies.
- Critically assess the successes and failures of EU policies.
Skills (Intellectual and Transferable)
The lectures will encourage you to:
- Listen carefully and critically to orally-presented argument
- Develop selective and efficient note-taking methods
- Make links between material presented at different times, on different issues
The written work in the course (blog-post assignment and examination) will require you to:
- Select relevant material from lectures, literature, news sources, and the web
- Understand, analyse and assess that material
- Produce a sustained, structured and informed answer
- Write in a concise and cogent style
- Employ AI tools to improve rather than replace writing skills and outputs
Student Effort Type | Hours |
---|---|
Autonomous Student Learning | 100 |
Lectures | 22 |
Total | 122 |
This is a stage two class. Thus, students should have attended and successfully passed the core stage 1 classes prior to taking this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Exam (In-person): End-of-year exam | End of trimester Duration: 2 hr(s) |
Graded | Yes | 60 |
Yes |
Participation in Learning Activities: Assignment workshop | Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7 | Pass/Fail Grade Scale | No | 10 |
No |
Reflective Assignment: Peer review activity | Week 7, Week 8 | Pass/Fail Grade Scale | No | 10 |
No |
Assignment(Including Essay): Written assignment | Week 8, Week 9 | Graded | No | 20 |
No |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Spring | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
Not yet recorded.